Doha: Qatar Charity’s (QC) office in the Gaza Strip finished the first stage of rebuilding Al Bukhari Mosque which was destroyed during the Israeli attack on Gaza, summer of 2014. It is located in the Nuseirat Camp, in the Middle Area; and cost QR1,560,000. The first stage included the implementation of footing works.
Engineer Mohammed Abu Halloub, QC’s Office Director in the Gaza Strip, stressed on the importance of reconstruction projects in the Gaza Strip which was brutally attacked. “Through implementing this project, we hope to serve the neighbours who need to go long distances to pray after their mosque had been destroyed. We expect to see 3,000 citizens benefiting from the project,” he added.
Abu Halloub stressed on the importance of such projects especially that it reopens destroyed mosques for the worshipers and reopens centres for the memorization of the Holy Quran at these mosques.
“I hope such project does not face any obstacles during its implementation. I also hope the construction materials would be easily provided and that it would be entirely built in the due time (December 2016).
Dr. Ahmed Al Jamal, Representative of the Reconstruction Committee, expressed his deep happiness for being a part of a committee consisting of the neighbourhoods senior figures so as to start the implementation of building Al Bukhari mosque project. “This project is of great importance to those who needed to take long distances to get to other mosques. We thank Qatar, its government, people and prince.
“We also thank its philanthropists who, through QC, helped make this project a reality. Now, we can resume our memorization sessions which greatly contribute to the education of our children. To QC, we thank you for this project. May God bless you!”
The reconstruction projects, in general, and mosques, in particular, are of great importance to QC. It is essential to establish mosques in inhabited areas where people could be deprived of the reward of group praying and religious interaction through the sessions of science and Quran. The absence of mosques could lead to the spread of ignorance and corruption.
Spreading religious awareness is a key goal to QC. It is currently building 3 mosques in the Gaza Strip. QC believes that building mosques can create job opportunities to unemployed builders.
During the past aggression on the Gaza Strip in 2014, around 30 mosques were entirely destroyed, while 161 mosques were partially destroyed and 10 others’ conditions varied.
QC’s office in the Gaza Strip had already started establishing a building as a headquarters for ambulance and emergencies. It is part of a bigger project that aims at equipping Al Shifa, Nasser, European and Kamal Adwan hospitals with generators, maintaining the electricity network, establishing an ambulance and emergency station and importing critical medications and disposables.
The project is implemented in cooperation with Palestine Ministry of Health; it aims at unifying the ambulance leadership so as to facilitate dealing with any emergencies and disasters. In addition, it is meant to secure ambulance and emergency services to the people of the Strip in general and Gaza in particular in a way that fits the demographic distribution of the 2,000,000 citizens.
Implemented in cooperation with Islamic Development bank and financed by the Gulf Cooperation Council of the Reconstruction of Gaza, the project aims at serving the Health Sector in general and improve the quality of medical services offered to the patients.
It was implemented at a cost of more than 7,000,000 QR (out of 21,900,000 QR allocated to the whole project).The Peninsula
